"Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique (SNEP). The group next released ""Absolutely Live"" (1970), a live album containing snippets of performances edited together from fourteen different concerts recorded in nine different cities in 1969 and 1970. ""Absolutely Live"" was well received and charted in the Top 10 in the US and Canada and was certified gold in both countries. ""L.A. Woman"" (1971), was the final Doors album with singer Jim Morrison, who died in Paris shortly after the album's release. The album was praised by critics and a commercial success, it landed inside the Top 10 in the US and Canada"
"Jim Morrison James Douglas ""Jim"" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead vocalist of the rock band The Doors. Due to his poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, wild personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early death, Morrison is regarded by music critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. Since his death, his fame has endured as one of popular culture's most rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture. Morrison co-founded the"
"A Tribute to Jim Morrison A Tribute to Jim Morrison (later re titled as ""The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison"" and ""No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute to Jim Morrison"") is a 1981 documentary about Jim Morrison, lead singer of American rock band the Doors who died in July 1971. The documentary explores Morrison's interest in film (he was a graduate of UCLA film school), poetry, psychology, mysticism and sexuality. Excerpts of Doors songs are included with only TV appearances playing ""Light My Fire"" and ""Touch Me"" played in their entirety. It features contemporary interviews with Morrison"
"three months after ""L.A. Woman"" was complete, Morrison left for Paris, never to perform with The Doors again. It is thought that Morrison left for Paris because he was unhappy and wanted to escape his rock star lifestyle to pursue poetry. What is clear is the sadness and maturity within Morrison's voice on ""Hyacinth House"", further enhanced by the acoustics in the studio bathroom. Manzarek's composition references Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 during the organ solo. Hyacinth House ""Hyacinth House"" is a 1971 song by The Doors which appears on their final album with frontman Jim Morrison,"
"in bass player, Jim Forrester, when Joe Selby moved from bass to guitar to form the new project. The band name derives from a split reference to Jim Morrison and an infamous amplifier once played by Jimi Hendrix. The band name was dubbed by vocalist, Dan Soren (known earlier by middle name, Kerzwick), in early September 1996, upon his return from European travel where he had visited the grave of Jim Morrison who is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. Jim Morrison was called the ""electric shaman"" by press and popular culture during his Doors years. The reference"
"section are as follows: Album Singles L.A. Woman L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, on Elektra Records. It is the last to feature the group's lead singer, Jim Morrison, who died three months after the album's release. It saw the band continue to integrate elements of blues back into their music, a direction begun with their previous album, ""Morrison Hotel"". It was also recorded without record producer Paul A. Rothchild after he fell out with the group over the perceived lack of quality of their studio performances."
"L.A. Woman L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, on Elektra Records. It is the last to feature the group's lead singer, Jim Morrison, who died three months after the album's release. It saw the band continue to integrate elements of blues back into their music, a direction begun with their previous album, ""Morrison Hotel"". It was also recorded without record producer Paul A. Rothchild after he fell out with the group over the perceived lack of quality of their studio performances. Subsequently, the band co-produced the album"
"Doors during the summer of 1965 in Venice, California. The band spent two years in obscurity until shooting to prominence with their #1 single in the United States, ""Light My Fire"", taken from their self-titled debut album. Morrison recorded a total of six studio albums with the Doors, all of which sold well and received critical acclaim. Though the Doors recorded two more albums after Morrison died, his death severely affected the band's fortunes, and they split up in 1973. In 1993, Jim Morrison, as a member of the Doors, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
"Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison. The Doors would go on to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and are considered one of the greatest rock groups of all time, with Morrison being considered one of the greatest rock frontmen. Venice would also be the birthplace of another legendary rock band in the 1980s in Jane's Addiction. Perry Farrell, frontman and founder of Lollapalooza, was a longtime Venice resident until 2010. Venice in the 1980s also had a large number of bands playing music known as crossover thrash, a hardcore punk/thrash metal musical hybrid. The most notable"
"Ed Sullivan Show"" and ""The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"". Many original photos of Morrison and the band are included from Joel Brodsky, Paul Ferrara, Jerry Hopkins, Frank Lisciandro and Gloria Stavers. The documentary was re-titled upon release on DVD but is now out of print. A Tribute to Jim Morrison A Tribute to Jim Morrison (later re titled as ""The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison"" and ""No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute to Jim Morrison"") is a 1981 documentary about Jim Morrison, lead singer of American rock band the Doors who died in July 1971. The documentary"
"lizard in Myanmar. The extinct reptile was given the moniker ""Barbaturex morrisoni"" in honor of Morrison. ""This is a king lizard, and he was the lizard king, so it just fit,"" said Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Jim Morrison James Douglas ""Jim"" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead vocalist of the rock band The Doors. Due to his poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, wild personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early death, Morrison is regarded by music critics and"
"mid-1968, the group was photographed for a ""Life"" magazine story on ""The New Rock"", appearing on the cover of the June 28, 1968 edition. They undertook their first major tour of Europe in August–September 1968, playing alongside the Doors in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Sweden. In a notorious incident at a concert in Amsterdam, while the Airplane was performing ""Plastic Fantastic Lover"", Doors singer Jim Morrison, under the influence of a combination of drugs fans had given him, appeared on stage and began dancing ""like a pinwheel"". As the group played faster and faster, Morrison spun around wildly until"
"Jim Morrison and are frequently used as covers for compilation albums, books, and other memorabilia of the Doors and Morrison. In late 1967 at a concert in New Haven, Connecticut, he was arrested on stage, an incident that further added to his mystique and emphasized his rebellious image. In 1968, the Doors released their third studio album, ""Waiting for the Sun"". The band performed on July 5 at the Hollywood Bowl; this performance became famous with the DVD: ""Live at the Hollywood Bowl"". It's also this year that the band played, for the first time, in Europe. Their fourth album,"
"George Stephen Morrison George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919November 17, 2008) was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison was commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which sparked an escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band the Doors, who died in July 1971. Born in Rome, Georgia, Morrison was the son of Caroline (née Hoover; 1891–1984) and Paul Raymund Morrison (1886–1971), and raised in Leesburg, Florida."
"The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. The band got its name at Morrison's suggestion from the title of Aldous Huxley's book ""The Doors of Perception"", which itself was a reference to a quote made by William Blake, ""If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."" They were unique and among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly because of Morrison's lyrics and charismatic but unpredictable"
"L.A. Woman (song) ""L.A. Woman"" is a song by American rock band the Doors. The song is the title track on their 1971 album ""L.A. Woman"", the final album to feature Jim Morrison before his death on 3 July 1971. In the song's bridge, Morrison repeats the phrase ""Mr. Mojo Risin',"" which is an anagram of ""Jim Morrison"". The song was recorded at The Doors Workshop on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, between December 1970 and January 1971. Morrison recorded his vocal part in the bathroom of the makeshift studio due to the room's natural reverb. Marc"
"rejected from at least two Doors albums. . . . It was a drunken, and mostly ad-libbed, recording. Yet, listening carefully . . . , one hears the authentic last of Jim Morrison, two weeks before he died, as he roars spontaneous verses and imagery about his hard-hearted woman, his anguish and his obsessions, easily deploying a poetic champion's compositional facility for the natural cadence and spontaneous rhyme""."" The segment was in fact recorded in Los Angeles and not in Paris as previously thought. Morrison offhandedly labeled the resulting reel-to-reel tape of the session ""Jomo and the Smoothies"", Jomo being"
"Lachaise Cemetery on July 7. The epitaph on his headstone bears the Greek inscription ""ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ"", literally meaning ""According to his own daimōn"" and usually interpreted as ""True to his own spirit"". Morrison died at age 27, the same age as several other famous rock stars in the 27 Club. In 1974, Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson also died at the age of 27. The surviving members initially considered replacing Morrison with a new singer. Instead, Krieger and Manzarek took over on vocals. The recording of ""Other Voices"" took place from June to August 1971, and the album was"
"(1969), ""Morrison Hotel"" (1970), ""Absolutely Live"" (1970) and ""L.A. Woman"" (1971), with 20 Gold, 14 Platinum, 5 Multi-Platinum and 1 Diamond album awards in the United States alone. By the end of 1971, it was reported that the Doors had sold 4,190,457 records domestically and 7,750,642 singles. The band had three million-selling singles in the U.S. with ""Light My Fire"", ""Hello, I Love You"" and ""Touch Me"". After Morrison's death in 1971, the surviving trio released two albums ""Other Voices"" and ""Full Circle"" with Manzarek and Krieger sharing lead vocals. The three members also collaborated on the spoken word recording"
"2013, Manzarek died at a hospital in Rosenheim, Germany, at the age of 74. His body was cremated. Robby Krieger said, ""I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today. I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him."" John Densmore said, ""There was no keyboard player on the planet more appropriate to support Jim Morrison's words. Ray, I felt totally in sync with you musically. It was like"
"who was co-producing the recording sessions. Jim Morrison recorded his main vocals and then whispered the lyrics over them to create the echo effect. This was the last song recorded by the members of the Doors, according to Manzarek, as well as Morrison's last recorded song to be released in his lifetime. The single was released in 1971, shortly before Morrison's death, entering the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 the week ending July 3, 1971, the same week that Morrison died. Many incorrectly believe that this is the song longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild disparaged as ""cocktail music"", precipitating his departure"
"bootleg, if they had not been separated from the primary collection and sold by Philippe Dalecky with this promotional title. Avid listeners familiar with the voices of Morrison's friends and colleagues later determined that, contrary to the story advanced by Dalecky that this was Morrison's final recording made with busking Parisian musicians, the ""Lost Paris Tapes"" are in fact, of ""Jomo & The Smoothies""—Morrison, friend Michael McClure and producer Paul Rothchild loose jamming in Los Angeles, well before Paris 1971. Morrison was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, one of the city's most visited tourist attractions, where Irish playwright"
"always invited him. On May 20, 2013, Ray Manzarek died of complications related to bile duct cancer. Beginning in the late 1970s, there was a sustained revival of interest in the Doors which created a new generation of fans. The origin of the revival is traced to the release of the album ""An American Prayer"" in late 1978 which contained a live version of ""Roadhouse Blues"" that received considerable airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations. In 1979 the song ""The End"" was featured in dramatic fashion in the film ""Apocalypse Now"" and the following year a best-selling biography of Morrison,"
"the ""Billboard"" album chart and ""Greatest Hits"" and ""The Best of the Doors"" re-entered the chart, with the latter reaching a new peak position of No. 32. The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. The band got its name at Morrison's suggestion from the title of Aldous Huxley's book ""The Doors of Perception"", which itself was a reference to a quote made by William Blake, ""If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as"
"An American Prayer An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by the Doors. In 1978, seven years after lead singer Jim Morrison died and five years after the remaining members of the band broke up, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore reunited and recorded backing tracks over Morrison's poetry (originally recorded in 1969 and 1970). Other pieces of music and spoken word recorded by the Doors and Morrison were also used in the audio collage, such as dialogue from Morrison's film """" and snippets from jam sessions. The album also includes a composite live version of"
"emerging music scene as groups followed the Byrds from folk to folk rock from 1965. The Los Angeles-based group the Doors formed in 1965 after a chance meeting on Venice Beach. Although its charismatic lead singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, the band's popularity has endured to this day. The psychedelic life style had already developed in San Francisco since about 1964, and particularly prominent products of the scene were the Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, the Great Society and Jefferson Airplane. The Byrds rapidly progressed from purely folk rock in 1966 with their single ""Eight Miles High"","
"with a gibberish-spouting Morrison in New Orleans on December 12, 1970, the band agreed to stop performing live, and the concert was the Doors' last public appearance as a quartet. When Morrison died in 1971, the surviving trio recorded two more albums of songs and an instrumental backdrop for the late singer's recorded poetry. Densmore remained a member until the band's dissolution in 1973. Densmore formed a musical group with fellow ex-Doors member Robby Krieger in 1973 called Butts Band. The group released two albums with two different lineups, and disbanded in 1975. Densmore left rock and roll in the"
"to Paris with Pamela Courson. He had visited the city the previous summer and was interested in moving there to become a writer in exile. Morrison was found dead in a bathtub on July 3, 1971, in Paris by his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy and the death certificate's having no reason of death besides heart failure, have left many questions regarding the cause of death. Morrison was buried in the ""Poets' Corner"" of Père"
"the audience-less rehearsal, was also released on ""Alive, She Cried"". Both the first and second shows along with the rehearsal the following day were released in 2001. It was at these shows that Morrison issued his poem, ""Ode to L.A. While Thinking of Brian Jones, Deceased"", a poem for the recently deceased former Rolling Stones guitarist and founder, who was a friend of the band, Manzarek and Morrison in particular. The Doors staged a return to form with their 1970 LP ""Morrison Hotel"", their fifth album. Featuring a consistent hard rock sound, the album's opener was ""Roadhouse Blues"". The record"
"the best albums released this decade"". During this period, the de facto blacklisting continued to persist in more socially conservative markets, particularly the Deep South; consequently, the band's 1970 American tour itinerary was largely confined to the Northeast, West Coast and more progressive Midwestern cities amid ongoing (albeit more sporadic) cancellations, including planned concerts in Salt Lake City and at the Jesuit-operated Fairfield University. The Doors Additional musicians Technical Sources: Morrison Hotel Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Doors, released February 9, 1970 by Elektra Records. Following the use of brass and string arrangements"
"Full Circle (The Doors album) Full Circle is the eighth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released in August 1972. It is the second album after Jim Morrison's death, and the last they compiled until the 1978 album ""An American Prayer"". The album includes ""The Mosquito"", the last Doors single to chart. The band's first album without Jim Morrison, 1971's ""Other Voices"", had reached #31 on the ""Billboard"" chart, a modest success for the group considering the monumental shadow cast by the passing of Morrison. The band - now a trio consisting of keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist"
"and produced two singles, ""Love Her Madly"" and ""Riders on the Storm"". Like ""Morrison Hotel"" before it, ""L.A. Woman"" relied very heavily on the blues, which was a genre of music the Doors had often incorporated into their early live sets while the house band at the London Fog, a nightclub on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. ""L.A. Woman"" was certified gold and platinum in several different countries. After the death of Morrison, the three remaining Doors members released two more studio albums before they eventually disbanded, ""Other Voices"" (1971), and ""Full Circle"" (1972). Both albums appeared on the"
"on another six months. On September 20, 1970, Morrison was convicted for the Miami incident. In a 1971 interview with Ben Fong-Torres, Morrison said of Miami, ""I think subconsciously I was trying to get across in that concert, I was trying to reduce it to absurdity. And it worked too well."" In November 1970, shortly after Morrison's trial ended, the Doors entered Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles to record early versions of ""L.A. Woman"", ""Riders on the Storm"", and ""Love Her Madly"", three songs they had recently written. The new songs were a departure from the heavily orchestrated pieces"